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Last updated: 03 Mar 2026

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Определение

Анамнез и осмотр

Ключевые диагностические факторы

  • rapid onset of illness and rapid deterioration
  • fever
  • leg pain
  • seizures
  • neck pain and stiffness
  • paresis
  • headache
  • photophobia
  • altered mental status
  • altered consciousness
  • focal neurologic deficit including cranial nerve involvement and abnormal pupils
  • hypotension
  • shock
  • toxic/moribund state
  • pallor or mottled skin
  • rash
  • cold hands and feet
  • hypotonia
  • high-pitched cry
  • Kernig sign
  • Brudzinski sign
  • bulging fontanel

Другие диагностические факторы

  • irritability
  • lethargy
  • muscle ache/joint pain
  • poor appetite or feeding
  • nausea or vomiting
  • thirst
  • coryza, sore throat, or cough
  • respiratory distress
  • tachycardia

Факторы риска

  • young age
  • complement deficiency
  • use of eculizumab or ravulizumab
  • immunoglobulin deficiency
  • HIV infection
  • asplenia or hyposplenia
  • college attendance
  • close contact with invasive meningococcal infection
  • household crowding
  • travel to a hyperendemic or epidemic area
  • laboratory workers
  • tobacco smoke exposure
  • recent move into a new community
  • respiratory infection
  • visiting bars/clubs
  • kissing

Диагностические исследования

Исследования, которые показаны в первую очередь

  • blood cultures
  • CBC and differential
  • electrolytes, calcium, magnesium, phosphate, glucose
  • coagulation profile (prothrombin time, INR, activated PTT, fibrinogen, fibrin degradation products)

Исследования, проведение которых нужно рассмотреть

  • cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) Gram stain
  • CSF cell count and differential
  • CSF glucose, protein
  • CSF culture
  • antigen detection in CSF
  • chest x-ray
  • CT head
  • Gram stain of non-CSF body fluid
  • culture of non-CSF body fluid
  • immunohistochemical staining of skin lesion biopsy
  • echocardiography
  • joint x-ray
  • polymerase chain reaction

Алгоритм лечения

Составители

Эксперты-консультанты

Elisabeth Adderson, MD

Associate Member

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

Associate Professor of Pediatrics

University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center

Memphis

TN

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EA declares that she has no competing interests.

Рецензенты

Richard T. Ellison III, MD

Professor of Medicine, Microbiology & Physiological Systems

UMass Chan Medical School

Worcester

MA

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RTE declares that he has no competing interests.

Peer reviewer acknowledgements

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Disclosures

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Эксперты-консультанты: сопутствующие заболевания

Pankaj Shah, MD

Endocrinologist

Assistant Professor of Medicine

Department of Internal Medicine

Chair, Hospital Diabetes and Endocrinology Core Group

Mayo Clinic

Rochester

MN

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As part of his job at his institute, PS provides expert opinion in a physician education tool called "Ask Mayo Expert", where he is one of several "Subject Matter Experts." He also addresses academic educational activities in the US and abroad as part of his institutional duty. PS declares no other competing interests.

Preethi Pirlamarla, MD

Physician (Cardiologist)

Director of Quality Improvement for the Advanced Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplant Department

Heart Institute at University of Washington Medical Center - Montlake

Seattle

WA

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PP declares that she has no competing interests.

Lorenzo Azzalini, MD, PhD, MSc, FACC, FSCAI

Associate Professor of Medicine

Division of Cardiology

Department of Medicine

University of Washington

Director of Interventional Cardiology Research, Heart Institute at University of Washington Medical Center - Montlake

Seattle

WA

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LA has received consulting fees from Teleflex, Abiomed, GE Healthcare, Reflow Medical, Shockwave, Abbott, and Cardiovascular Systems, Inc.; received a research grant by Abiomed; serves on the advisory board of Abiomed and GE Healthcare; and owns equity in Reflow Medical.

Philip R. Muskin, MD, MA, DLFAPA, LFACLP

Professor of Psychiatry

Columbia University Irving Medical Center

Senior Consultant in Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry

New York-Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical Center

New York

NY

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PRM is an Associate Editor of American Psychiatric Association Publishing and on the editorial board for the journal Focus, for which he receives no compensation. At the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology he is a member of the Article Based Certification Committee for Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry (no compensation), and at the American Psychiatric Association he is a member of the Scientific Program Committee for the Annual Meeting 2025 (no compensation) and will be on this committee in 2026. PRM serves as an expert witness in psychiatric malpractice lawsuits, for which he is compensated. He was grant co-investigator for the proposal “Can hypnosis enhance the ability to regulate behavioral and brain markers of emotion regulation?” (Proposal No. 75037-NS, Department of the Army, US Army Combat Capabilities Development Command, Army Research Office), which ended in 2023. PRM receives royalties from American Psychiatric Association Publishing for The American Psychiatric Publishing Study Guide for the Psychiatry Board Examination (edited by Muskin PR and Dickerman AL, American Psychiatric Publishing, 2016), and makes presentations at the American Psychiatric Association and Academy of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry Annual Meetings.

Seki Balogun, MD, FACP, AGSF

Professor of Medicine

Geriatrician and Palliative Care Physician

University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center

Oklahoma City

OK

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SB serves on the United States Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE) Step 3 Interdisciplinary Review Committee.

Khalilah Gates, MD

Associate Professor of Medicine (Pulmonary and Critical Care)

Assistant Dean of Learning and Academic Performance

Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care

Department of Medicine

Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

Medical Director, Diversity and Inclusion Education

NM Academy

Chicago

IL

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KG is a Board Member of the Respiratory Health Association, where she focuses on communication for COPD and asthma and has no financial agreements or obligations.

Karen Jubanyik, MD

Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine

Director

Emergency Medicine Clerkship

Yale School of Medicine

New Haven

CT

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KJ declares that she has no competing interests.

Ziad Zoghby, MD, MBA, FACP

Associate Professor of Medicine

Division of Nephrology and Hypertension

Department of Medicine

Mayo Clinic

Rochester

MN

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ZZ received fees for consultancy work in 2022 and 2023 for ChroniSense Ltd, a remote digital health company. He has served since 2018 on the Nephrology Specialty Board for EPIC, an electronic health record vendor, and is the elected Chair of the Board for 2024-2025 (a nonpaid position).

Madeleine Alexeeva, DO

Emergency Medicine Physician

Vituity

Visalia

CA

Associate Program Director of Emergency Medicine Residency

Kaweah Health Medical Center

Visalia

CA

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MA declares that she has no competing interests.

Lindsey Phillips, MD

Assistant Professor of Medicine

University of North Carolina School of Medicine

Chapel Hill

NC

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LP declares that she has no competing interests.

Michael S. Phipps, MD, MHS

Associate Professor of Neurology and Epidemiology and Public Health

University of Maryland School of Medicine

Director of the Brain Attack Center at the University of Maryland Medical Center

Baltimore

MD

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MSP declares that he is a member of the American Academy of Neurology Quality Committee (non-financial), a Liaison, American Heart Association, QCOR Committee (non-financial) and a member of the International Stroke Conference Program Committee (non-financial). No financial disclosures.

Список литературы

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Основные статьи

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Meningococcal disease. Feb 2024 [internet publication].Полный текст

Mbaeyi SA, Bozio CH, Duffy J, et al; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Meningococcal vaccination: recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, United States, 2020. MMWR Recomm Rep. 2020 Sep 25;69(9):1-41.Полный текст  Аннотация

van de Beek D, Cabellos C, Dzupova O, et al. ESCMID guideline: diagnosis and treatment of acute bacterial meningitis. Clin Microbiol Infect. 2016 May;22 Suppl 3:S37-62.Полный текст  Аннотация

Статьи, указанные как источники

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